Special edition of today at the Olympic Games. With matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition of today on a friday morning. Savannah, its great to see you. We have reached the final hours of our countdown to tonights Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games and i will be honest with you, im above. Youre nervous . You dont have to do a back flip, do you . No, do you know what, thats actually right. We are hosting the Opening Ceremony, what do we have to be nervous about . Were not competing in the Olympic Games. I have to tell you, savannah, youve been to the olympics, you know sometimes in the morning when the crowd gathers here at an olympic set up wonderful little moments, unexpected moments. I had one of those a second ago, i was Walking Around talking to on copacabana beach and i walked up to this guy right here and i said, hey, love the tv, team u. S. A. , you got the simone b
Ive had cohosts. Ive had people that i barely know. Andy somebody the first day, nice, but you know, and regis came on tuesday, and i love him, but he came back on wednesday, and then thursday oh, tony dancea, i thought he retired, but no, he came back and nobody is you, hoda woman. Its just so quiet im right here, kath im here no, youre not, hoda. Thats mean youre not here. Youre in rio no, im with you. Im right here. What are you talking about . Here hodi my hodi are you having fun, hoda . Your hair looks terrible. Are you okay . Are you okay . I dont care about the hair. I am right here on the beaches, kath. Can you believe this . Hoda, come walk with me just for a second. Look, i want to show you what youre missing. Hows the wine . Look at these people. The wine isnt as good as yours. Look, i have here and we have waves here. Kath, wheres the copacabana beach . You know your buddy Barry Manilow . At the copa, copacabana. Every time you wear it you look so good. I miss you, hoda wom
Weekend . We are going the be climbing out of it a lyover the weekend. Today, cloudy fort collins, cleared a bit in the metro area as we had a couple of showers move through. We may see one or two light rain showers from time to time, not going to be a big thing. Temperatures holding in the 60s this morning. We have seen small pockets of rain, coming and going and fizzling. Northern colorado, light showers there, and along the peak to peak highway. Shouldnt affect you at all. If you e morning, with so many breaks in the overcast, rain will pick up through the afternoon today, especially after 3 00 this afternoon, front range mountains and foothills hit the hardest, we could see one or two downpours between 3 30 and 7 30 this afternoon. Flash flood watches expanded. Down through black hawk central city in to Colorado Springs, through then tire southwest if you are out working today, perhaps a sprinkle this morning, not really that big of a deal. Nice cool day, temperatures in the low 70
While you watched the event outside the olympic park in rio today, strong winds send fences flying and damaged part of the building including the swimming venue. Our team is there with that story and the rest of the big news from the olympics. Beyond anybodys control. And we have some real reminders of that here in the parking rio today. Spot you bet. Events canceled, postponed, anything outside was impacted. The wind that caused problems caused damage to one of the most beautiful venues here in the park, the swimming venue. Theres an entire Panel Missing off the side. Everything was blown away. My god. Its been written that wind does not discriminate and boy, is that apparent in orland park. When you walk that way, you go flying. It touches everything and everyone it passes. And it passed with a fury. Umbrellas were flying around. The fencing areas were being blown away. People being blown away. Reporter pe of the walls of the swimming venue, the original art on the side ripped and un
The tech center cam. This is passed handed out to bellevue. You see these cars off to the left side of the highway. We have a truck along there. Just the right two lanes are getting by. Hes accused of eating marijuana infused candy and killing his wife. And today we could learn if richard kirk is mentally fit to stand trial. We are live covering that case. Reporter after more of a year in delays in his Mental Health evaluation the report is finally ready. A judge will review and he will decide today if richard kirk is fitted stand trial. Last September Kirk changed his plea to guilty by reason of insanity and a judge will review that report and decide whether to set the case for for treatment. The defense suggests that when kirk killed his wife in may 2014 he was so impaired by the marijuana infused candy that he may not have intended to kill his wife. Before her death kristin kirk told dispatchers that her husband was acting more drunk crawling to a bedroom window and cutting his legs